Overview
- NDMC says it has shifted staff into three continuous shifts, added vehicles and deployed gobbler machines to clear roughly 15 metric tonnes of waste in the latest 24‑hour period.
- Permanent police barricades around the protest perimeter prevent high‑capacity compactor trucks from entering the core site, so crews manually bag waste and rely on smaller auto‑tippers to remove it.
- Student and volunteer groups have taken on sweeping, bin distribution and on‑site collection, with medical students and organised teams supplementing municipal labour.
- Municipal health teams have stepped up fogging and other anti‑mosquito measures as volunteers and doctors report headaches, sore throats and other infections among crowded protesters.
- The surge in packaged food deliveries and volunteer distribution is creating concentrated waste hotspots along Tolstoy Marg, Janpath and Sansad Marg that could keep straining NDMC capacity unless truck access or coordinated clearance is restored.